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...used for this purpose. You also state: "There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers. . . ." Unless startling innovations have been installed since I left the Great Lakes region two years ago, this is also inaccurate. The hopper cars are run out on the dock a few at a time, and the ore dumped into the pockets by opening the hopper bottoms of the cars. The ore goes, whenever a freighter is ready for it, from the pockets into the hold via steel spouts hinged to the sides of the dock. Cardumpers such as you mention...
...Coronation of the world's greatest surviving King, George VI. At sailing time, however, it looked as if a petty king of U. S. labor were going to have the best of puissant George VI, for the Coronation-bound passengers were aboard ship but their Coronation costumes were dock-bound by a strike of some 300 baggage wallopers called out by President Joseph P. Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association...
...Immingham Dock, Humber River, in the north of England, the little freighter Backworth last week loaded $10,000 worth of sugar, flour, fruit and dried salt fish for starving Basques in Spain's besieged Bilbao. More than one-tenth of the cargo was paid for by David Lloyd George who seldom misses a chance to make political capital of anything. Down to the dock hurried Britain's Wartime Prime Minister to wring Captain Russell of the Backworth by the hand...
Investigation in Washington found much truth in the story. Russian agents have talked with Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Ltd., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. and New York Shipbuilding Corp. The State and Navy Departments have been approached for consent to the plan. Because Russia is not a belligerent in any war, the State Department would be forced to grant licenses, the Navy Department's only objections being that they would not allow the shipping abroad of 16-in. guns, a U. S. specialty, nor may Navy proving grounds be used to test the quality of guns or armor plate...
...from the mines it scarcely stops moving till it reaches the blast furnaces in Gary or Pittsburgh. Along spurs of no fewer than nine railroads, box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports, roll on high trestles to the loading docks, which are anywhere from a sixth to a half-mile long. There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers from which the ore spouts into the holds of waiting ships. Loadings are incredibly rapid. The steamer D. G. Kerr on Sept. 7, 1921 took...